Celebrating Dad's special day with do-it-yourself gifts

3:33 AM,
Jun. 16, 2013

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Abbey Roy

Happy Father's Day! To all my faithful fatherly readers: Best wishes for your namesake observance. May it be filled with scores of manly things - large hunks of meat, football games, grilling, organizing toolboxes and the like.

This past week, Analeigh (Little Roy) and I decided to be ambitious and do a do-it-yourself Father's Day project*. This was a big deal for me, because usually I come up with marvelous ideas for creative, homemade gifts and never make them. (However, my Pinterest boards look pretty impressive.)

In a rush of inspiration one morning while Littlest Roy took a snooze, ...